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Todd: OK, I'm going to talk about my one wish. I think everybody has one ortwo things they wish they could change about themselves and for me Ireally wish I could sing. Unfortunately I have a terrible voice. I cannotsing at all, and in Japan, this is very embarrassing because Japanesepeople love to go to karaoke, and karaoke is when you go with a bunchof friends to a place, a karaoke bar, I guess, or center, and you geta small room and inside the room there are TV's and songs are on theTV's. You can choose what songs to watch and then one person sings thesong and everyone listens and it's very popular in Japan and it's alot of fun but it's really embarrassing because I can't sing and everybodyalways says, " No, no, no, you sing. Oh, no, it's OK. It's OK.Don't worry. Don't be embarrassed," but after I sing, my singingis so bad that everybody doesn't want me to sing anymore, so it's alsoreally hard for me because I teach children and I love teaching childrenand

when you teach childrenyou need to teach songs, and so I sing many, many songs with my students,for example, "Itsy-Bitsy Spider" or "Row-Row-Row yourboat!" or many, many songs, but I can't sing and so luckily thekids really don't care so usually it's alright that my voice is reallybad but sometimes they tell me, they say, "Sensei, Sensei!"in Japanese, "You're singing is terrible!" so it's reallyembarrassing but I have to do it. Songs are very important for childrenwhen they're little. I think the reason I cannot sing is because unfortunatelyin my country we don't sing as children and I really would like thisto change. It really bothers me. I've noticed in Thailand, in Japan,in other countries that I have taught, children sing in elementary schoola lot and in the United States you don't do this and I think it's terriblebecause you need to sing when you're little to train your voice so itcan learn tones and so it can learn how to sing properly and becauseI never learned to sing when I was little it's almost impossible tolearn how to sing when you're older, so yeah, I really wish I couldsing but I just don't think that it's ever going to be a reality.